"What? Are you the messenger sent by Ma Ko from the Right Guard, and you also brought Ma Ko's handwritten begging letter? Where is the letter? Show me. ”

From the mouth of the escort soldiers, he learned the approximate intention of Ma Ko's brother-in-law Huang Youwei, Li Mi was taken aback, and subconsciously blurted out that Huang Youwei asked for a letter, and Huang Youwei, who was born with a roe head and a rat's eyes, was extremely embarrassed, and said: "This lord, brother-in-law, he has an explanation, so that the villain must personally present this letter to the Duke of Chu of Shangzhu State, the villain has not seen the ...... of Duke Chu." ”

"Don't talk nonsense, I'm a military advisor, it's the same to show me first." Li Mi urged anxiously.

"Mr. Master, you are not a military advisor now, but a deputy military advisor." Yang Xuanting's voice suddenly sounded next to him, Li Mi hurriedly turned his head to look, but saw Yang Xuanting, Yang Wanshuo and Yang Jishan surrounded Li Zixiong and came to the side at some point, Yang Xuanting, who was very dissatisfied with Li Mi recently, also added: "Also, even if you are still a military advisor, you can't read the letter that you want to submit directly to your brother by name." ”

Hearing Yang Xuanting's dissatisfied tone, Li Mi's already dark face naturally became even darker, and the old general Li, who was surrounded by the Yang family brothers, smiled and said very gracefully: "The three generals don't mind, the Dharma Master is also impulsive when he cares about military affairs, and he can be forgiven." Master, don't worry, Duke Chu will be here soon, and when Duke Chu has read the letter, we should be able to know the content of the letter. ”

Li Mi, who had fallen out of favor in front of Yang Xuangan, agreed sullenly, and Yang Xuanting's brother over there couldn't wait to ask Huang Youwei about the specific situation, and after Huang Youwei's careful introduction to Li Mi, he knew that Huang Youwei's brother-in-law Ma Kou was the unlucky guy who was tied to a stake by Fan Zigai on the first day and whipped in public. Let Huang Youwei sneak out of Luoyang City overnight with the help of his henchmen and soldiers, come to Kim Yong City to meet Yang Xuangan, and hand over Ma Ko's handwritten letter.

Although Huang Youwei didn't know what his brother-in-law said in the letter, it was enough to make Li Zixiong and the Yang brothers overjoyed, sure enough, a moment later, when Yang Xuangan came to the Chinese army tent and learned about it, he was immediately overjoyed, and before he had time to enter the tent, he had already asked for the letter from Huang Youwei's hand, and opened the letter while leading everyone into the tent to watch, but before everyone in the tent could sit down, Yang Xuangan suddenly yelled, startling everyone present, "Okay!" That's great! ”

"Duke Chu, what exactly is written in the letter? Can you be so excited? Li Mi, who vaguely felt that the situation was not good, hurriedly asked.

"Hahaha!" Yang Xuangan didn't pay attention to Li Mi's question at all, but just laughed wildly and said, "Fan Zigai, old horseman, you also have today!" Don't treat the soldiers under his command as human beings, blindly punish indiscriminately, and disregard people's lives, this time he has finally been retributed, right? God help me! God help me! ”

"Duke Chu, what is written in the letter? Please let your ministers take a look at it for you. ”

Li Miyi, who had a strong sixth sense, felt that it was not good, and asked to see the letter again, but unfortunately Yang Xuangan ignored him, and directly handed the letter to Li Zixiong and others, and said with a smile: "General Li, third brother and fifth brother, you can take a look, good news, great news!" ”

Li Zixiong hurriedly took the letter, Li Mi was helpless, so he had to run to Li Zixiong's side to read the letter together, and then Yang Wanshuo unceremoniously pushed it away, forcing Li Mi to stand behind Li Zixiong in a reluctant voice, poking his head and reading the letter with difficulty, but it was okay not to read the content of the letter, probably after seeing the content of the letter, Li Mi's little black face suddenly turned pale into a little white face.

The content of the letter must be known to friends, the Sui army stationed at Shangchun Gate Eagle Strike General Ma Kou told Yang Xuangan, saying that his first day was just a temporary rest on the road of the city gate, but was mistaken by Pei Hongce for a cowardly escape, in front of Fan Zigai sued a complaint, Fan Zigai, who regarded the Sui army soldiers as pigs and dogs, also indiscriminately whipped General Ma eighty lashes in public, and the guilty and humiliated General Ma was angry with the tyrant lackey Fan Zigai's brutality and arbitrariness, and was determined to abandon the darkness and join the glorious ranks of rebellion and rebellion. Volunteered to act as an internal response to the rebels, preparing to gather a group of Sui soldiers who were poisoned and brutalized by Fan Zigai, and looking for an opportunity to open the city gate when the rebels attacked the city next time, and welcomed Yang Xuangan, the Duke of Chu, into the city.

In addition, General Ma Kou also took the initiative to introduce a situation that made Yang Xuansheng ecstatic and made Li Mi secretly complain, saying that his own brother Ma Yihao is also a general of the Sui army, and is currently serving as a captain, and now Ma Yihao's team is still stationed in the Luoyang granary, and said that Ma Yihao is also willing to follow him to abandon the darkness and join the rebels, and he can start burning the granary at any time, creating the greatest chaos in Luoyang City, and receiving Yang Xuangan's army into the city.

After reading this letter quickly, Li Mi, who was extremely fast in reading and thinking, suddenly shouted, "Bitter meat plan! The bitter meat trick of the class gate with an axe! Chu Gong, you must not fall for the trick, this is the bitter trick of Fan Zigai's old horseman! He wants us to fall into his despicable trap! ”

roaring, Li Mi was like an angry lion again, he stepped forward angrily and grabbed Huang Youwei, slapped Huang Youwei in the face, and roared angrily: "Bold thief! Dare to gang up with your brother-in-law to come to deceive and deceive the Duke of Chu, the crime is unforgivable! Someone, push this rat thief out of the tent and behead it for public display! ”

The order issued by Li Mi, who had lost power, of course Yang Xuangan's soldiers in the big tent of the Chinese army would not pay attention to it, on the contrary, Huang Youwei was frightened, and quickly knelt down on his knees, and wailed with a handful of snot and tears, "Chu Gong spares his life, the villain is not a fraud, the villain is not a fraud, the villain is just listening to his brother-in-law's order to send a letter, brother-in-law said that if I come to deliver a letter, there must be a heavy reward, and he also said that he wants his maid in the family to give me a concubine, I just sent the letter, I dare not lie to you, dare not deceive!" ”

"Li Mi! Are you enough? Yang Xuangan also launched a flutter and yelled: "Let go of him and step aside for me!" ”

"Duke Chu ......." Li Mi wanted to cry without tears, so he could only shout: "You can't be fooled, this is a bitter trick, a trick, and a trap set by Fan Zigai's old puppeteer!" This old horseman, I used to think that he was just brutal and easy to kill, mean and unkind, but I didn't expect this old horseman to be so treacherous! You can even think of such a ruthless poisonous trick ....... ”

"Shut up!" Yang Xuan couldn't bear it anymore, and roared: "If you say one more word, you will immediately beat the handsome account with a stick!" ”

Li Mi opened his mouth again and wanted to say something, but when he saw Yang Xuangan's iron-blue face, Li Mi still closed his mouth helplessly - for Li Mi, it didn't matter whether he was beaten out of the tent with a stick, whether he could stay in the tent to stop Yang Xuangan's trick was the most important thing.

At this time, the old general Li and the Yang brothers also read the letter successively, for the content of the letter, the Yang family brothers who were eager for revenge were of course smiling and high-fived, but the old general Li Zixiong was silent, closed his eyes and thought about it for a while, the old general Li turned to Li Mi, and said slowly: "Master, just now you insisted that this letter was a trick and a bitter plan, so the old man may ask you, what is the purpose of Fan Zigai's doing this?" Do you want to lure us into attacking Luoyang City and take the opportunity to set a trap to ambush us? Or do you want to trick us into the city of urns and annihilate our army into the city? In addition to the imperial city in Luoyang, what city gate is there to build an urn city? ”

"Old general, why do you knowingly ask this?" Li Mi said profusely: "The purpose of Fan Zigai's bitter plan is not to induce us to make tactical mistakes, but to induce us to make strategic mistakes, so that we feel that there is great hope for capturing Luoyang, and continue to storm Luoyang Jiancheng, and do not do anything else, especially not to attack the already extremely empty Guanzhong Sanfu Land, and change the way to share the pressure for the Guanzhong officers and soldiers." ”

"Master, don't you find your explanation ridiculous?" Old General Li laughed, smiled and said: "Our army has more than 100,000 troops, Fan Zigai only has more than 20,000 troops in his hands, and he must also hold the city of Luoyang, which has as many as 12 gates, and at the same time have to take into account the security of the imperial city, and there are very few troops who can be put into mobile combat, is Fan Zigai crazy or stupid, will we be tempted to point all the spearheads at him?" Isn't he afraid that our army will break through the eastern capital and slaughter his entire family? Isn't this ridiculous? ”

Yang Xuanting's brothers all laughed, and unceremoniously laughed loudly at Li Mi's nonsense, but Li Mi blushed and said loudly: "Old General Li, where is this absurdity?" The emptiness of the pass, is conducive to our army to enter the pass, once our army enters the pass, it will be able to hold the Tongguan natural danger immediately, the tyrant Yang Guang's main force to return to the main force, want to capture the Tongguan is also a thousand difficulties! Fan Zigai sits on a strong city, although there are few soldiers but there is a strong city to defend, sacrificing himself to lure our army to continue to attack Luoyang, it is to lose the pawn to protect the car, and resolve the crisis in Guanzhong! ”

"Hehe, the Dharma Master is really eloquent, and he is indeed clever in his tongue." Li Zixiong laughed and said: "Then please ask the Dharma Master again, then Fan Zigai has not considered it, after we break through the eastern capital Luoyang, what will happen to him Fan Zigai?" ”

"Old General Li, forgive the juniors for saying a disrespectful word, you can also take the eastern capital Luoyang?" Li Mi couldn't bear it anymore, and said loudly: "Old General Li, yesterday's siege tactics, the younger generation also understands, yes, your tactics are indeed correct, so correct that they can't be more correct, if you are commanding the army of Youwuhou to attack the city, you have basically captured Luoyang yesterday!" ”

"But! Don't forget, you are not commanding the elite main force of Youwuhou, it is a rabble that has been formed for less than two months, and it is a group of civilians who have just been armed. ”

"Li Mi, what do you mean by that?" Yang Xuangan was furious and roared: "Our 100,000 righteous army is a rabble, what is the Pillar Country? Don't forget, our group of rabble, from Liyang to Luoyang, fought all the way like a bamboo, conquered countless famous cities in Xiongguan, and killed Pei Hongce, Da Xi Kindness and Yuan Chaoqun all wiped out! Hit Wei Wensheng's army of 40,000 hard! If you hadn't dragged Ben Zhu Guo back, Ben Zhu Guo would have captured Wei Xuansheng alive and wiped out all the 40,000 Guan Zhong officers and soldiers! If you still feel like we're just a rabble and don't deserve you, you can go! ”

"Yes, if you don't think we deserve you, you can find another job! We don't keep you! Yang Xuanting also shouted, and then Yang Wanshuo and Yang Jishan also shouted.

Li Mi, who told the truth, wanted to cry without tears, but General Li took the opportunity to beat the water dog, and pointed to Huang Youwei, who was still kneeling on the ground, and said: "Master, if you insist that this letter is a trick and a bitter trick, then the old man may ask you again, how do you explain this messenger of General Ma Ko?" If he surrendered by fraud and came alone to deliver a message to our army, wouldn't he be afraid of being suspected by us, not afraid of being severely tortured by us, and not afraid of being beheaded by us? ”

"Old general, old general, the villain is not a fraud, the villain is really not a fraud!" Huang Youwei burst into tears again, kowtowed desperately and said: "The villain is just sending a letter to his brother-in-law, just sending a letter to his brother-in-law!" Don't kill me, don't kill me, don't kill me! ”

Crying bitterly, the Chinese army's tent suddenly smelled and rushed to the nose, everyone took a closer look, and immediately burst into laughter, it turned out that Huang Youwei's crotch was already wet, and it was obvious that he had been scared to pee his crotch. Yang Xuanting also seized the opportunity to sarcastically mock Li Mi, and immediately pointed at Huang Youwei and asked Li Mi: "Deputy Military Master Li, do you look like he looks like someone who has the courage to come to us to take the risk of surrendering?" ”

"Three generals, old generals, you should have read Sun Tzu's Art of War, right? You can't even hear the word death, right? Li Mi smiled bitterly and lamented.

"Master, are you willing to let your brother-in-law die?" Li Zixiong smiled and said: "If you are willing to let your flesh and blood relatives act as a dead room, then the old man will believe that he is a dead room." ”

Li Mi was completely speechless, and couldn't help but feel a little shaken, saying in his heart that Ma Kou was willing to send his brother-in-law out to deliver the letter, could it really be a surrender? - Of course, if Li Mi could know that the truth of the whole incident was actually a family ethics drama in which his brother-in-law and brother-in-law shared a secret lover and gave birth to murderous intentions, then Li Mi would definitely be so depressed that he vomited blood.

Refutating Li Mi to the point that he had nothing to say, the old general Li was also proud as if he had already conquered Luoyang City, turned to Yang Xuangan in high spirits, and arched his hand and said: "Duke Chu, the Lord of the Law's caution is not entirely wrong, caution is the best, it is best for Duke Chu to carefully inquire about the specific situation of this Yellow Messenger." In addition, there are quite a few generals of the Right Guards who surrendered in our army, and there must be some people who are familiar with General Ma Ko, so Duke Chu might as well call them here and understand General Ma Ko's personality in person, so that he can be more sure. ”

"What the old general said is very true, and we should be cautious." Yang Xuangan nodded again and again, and hurriedly instructed Yang Xuanting: "Third brother, go and ask Yuan Jinwei to see if he knows this Ma Kou?" If he doesn't know him, let him take you to find out who knows Ma Ko and bring him to me. ”

Yang Xuanting took the order and left, Yang Xuangan and Li Zixiong first comforted Huang Youwei with kind words, and asked carefully about the details of the matter, Huang Youwei also replied in detail, saying that he was called to his sister's house around the second watch last night, and saw his brother-in-law lying on the bed with whip marks on his face, and his sister wiped his tears next to him and kept crying, saying that the injury on his brother-in-law's body was ordered by Fan Zigai himself, and then the brother-in-law kicked his sister out of the room, took out the letter and wanted to send the letter here by himself, originally Huang Youwei was also a little afraid and did not dare to go out of the city, But the brother-in-law promised to give him half of the family property, and gave his long-cherished sister's maid Cuihua to himself as a concubine, and said that he would definitely get a heavy reward for sending letters here, and Huang Youwei, who was poor and ugly, was greedy for beauty and gold and silver, so he made up his mind to take a risk, sneaked out of Luoyang City overnight with the help of his brother-in-law's own soldiers, and came here overnight to meet Yang Xuangan.

After listening to Huang Youwei's careful introduction, Yang Xuangan was undoubtedly convinced, but General Li still had a question, and asked Huang Youwei: "Little Brother Huang, since it is your brother-in-law's personal soldiers who put you down the city wall with ropes, why didn't your brother-in-law send his personal soldiers to deliver the letter, but preferred to send you to deliver the letter?" ”

"I asked my brother-in-law too." Huang Youwei replied truthfully: "Brother-in-law said, the matter is too important, send someone here, I am afraid that if you don't believe it, you will miss a big thing, so you must send my brother-in-law to deliver the letter." ”

"Messenger Huang, how many brothers and sisters do you have at home?" General Li asked again.

"The villain has an older sister, a younger sister, and no brothers." Huang Youwei replied truthfully.

"Duke Chu, no problem." Old General Li turned to Yang Xuangan and said categorically: "General Ma sent his only brother-in-law to deliver the letter, the purpose is to let his brother-in-law come here as a hostage, so that we can rest assured. If he sends his henchmen and soldiers, we will never dare to rest assured! ”

Yang Xuangan smiled and nodded, agreeing with General Li's judgment, at this moment, Yang Xuanting also led Yuan Jinwei into the handsome tent, and before he could salute, Yuan Jinwei and Huang Youwei had already screamed separately, and said in unison: "Brother Huang (General Yuan), why are you here?!" ”

"You know?" Yang Xuan asked with great joy.

"Acquaintance." Yuan Jinwei nodded and replied: "The last general and his brother-in-law Ma Kou are good friends, they often go to his brother-in-law's house to drink, and he often runs to his brother-in-law's house, so I have met him a few times." ”

"General Yuan, it turns out that your name is Yuan Jinwei." Huang Youwei answered the question, and said with a sad face: "If I had known that you were also here, I wouldn't have been scared like this." ”

"Scared like this?" Yuan Jinwei took a closer look at Huang Youwei's wet crotch, and immediately laughed, "Brother Huang, you really deserve to be Brother Ma's brother-in-law, last time I went to General Dugu to pick someone to go to the battlefield in Liaodong, there were rumors that his name was in point, and he peed his crotch on the spot, what are you not good at, how can you learn your brother-in-law's crotch?" ”

Yang Xuangan, Li Zixiong and the others laughed together, and Li Mi's heart became even more suspicious, and he said secretly: "Listen to the tone, that Ma Kou should not be a person who has the courage to dare to act, and he definitely doesn't have the courage to take eighty lashes and use bitter meat tricks, could it be that this Ma Kou and his brother are really our hope to break through Luoyang?" ”

"When Ma Kou heard that he was named to go on the expedition, he was so scared that he peed his crotch on the spot? Isn't it really a scam? The old general Li Zixiong also had some doubts in his heart, but quickly put this question aside, and said secretly: "It doesn't matter if he is a bitter trick or not, not Fan Zigai's trick, of course it is the best, even if it is for the old man, it doesn't matter, as long as Luoyang is broken, not only the old man's face is back, but the old man can also take the opportunity to grasp the military power, gradually control the army, and when the time is ripe in the future, he can replace Yang Xuangan." ”